Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Introduction 9
4. 1 A Genealogy of Kouta eiga 41
5. 2 Katsutarō’s Trilogy 65
6. 3 Japanese Cinema and the Radio 89
7. 4 Architecture of Sound 111
8. 5 No Interpreter, Full Volume 127
9. 6 The Image of the Modern Talkie Film Studio 157
10. 7 The Dawn of the Talkies in Japan 183
11. 8 The Early talkie frame in Japanese cinema 201
12. Index 223